"Planet B: Climate Change and the New Sublime" is the first show by Nicolas Bourriaud's new international curatorial cooperative, Radicants.
Designed as an exhibition in three acts: 1. Every exhibition is a forest. 2. Charles Darwin and the coral reefs. 3. The tragic death of Nauru Island, "Planet B" considers how global warming has affected the artist's relationship with the nature. Where artists once saw wonder, they may now see threat, a transformation which "Planet B" relates back to the Romantic notion of the sublime, defined by Edmund Burke in the 18th century as a "feeling of aesthetic pleasure tainted with fear, or the proximity with danger”.
Calling the recent fear of humankind's loss of control over the planet the 'contemporary sublime', "Planet B" positions the sublime as the defining aesthetic notion of the Anthropocence and brings together artists demonstrating this in their work.
Charles Avery will be included in the second act of "Planet B", Charles Darwin and the Coral Reefs, commencing on the 8th of July until the 27th November, 2022.
